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Poetry Friday: The Benign Majesty of Tomatoes

Iphigene here.

I’m once again tasked to post a poem for today’s Poetry Friday (hosted by Jone at Check it Out). In line with my previous post on Neruda’s Ode to the Onion, today, I’m posting his Ode to the Tomato. This poem drew me further in with the phrase benign majesty. It is Neruda’s ability to bring elegance in his poetry that had made me fall in love with his poems the moment I read them.

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Mmmmm… perhaps not the best idea to read this right before dinner when I was hungry to start with! For me, the tastiest bit is “light is/ halved/ like/ a/ tomato,/ its juice/ runs/ through the street.”